Description

There is to be an anticipation of what Christ will do when He returns. No one knows the time when Christ will return.

Scripture Text(s)

Primary Text: Titus 2:11-14

Supplemental Texts: Acts 1; Colossians 3:4; Philippians 3:20

Main Points or Ideas

Everything we have in Christ is because of grace. 

1. Grace brings salvation (vs. 11). 

• Verses 11-14 are all about grace.
• Salvation has appeared to all. 
• Salvation is available to all, to those who have believed and those who have not believed. 
• It is our obligation to take the truth of salvation to all people. 

1. Grace teaches sanctification (vs. 12). 

• There is in this grace a sanctifying work that needs to be predominant in our lives. 
• We need to be different from the world. 
• Worldliness and ungodliness is all around us. 
• It is not just what we don’t do, it is also what we do do. 
• We need to be proactively producing in our lives Christlikeness. 

1. Grace reveals the Savior (vs. 13-14). 

• Think about His past work of redemption. He is the Savior who died for us. 
• The substitutionary death of Christ 
• He died in our place. He died for us. 
• There is an expectation to look expectedly. 
• We need to think more about what Christ will do when He returns.

Expectation, Explanation, Exhortation and Expression of Deity (vs. 13)

Conclusion

We have an obligation to think about what is coming. Have an expectation that Christ is going to return, because He is. Anticipate the Lord’s return. It could be today. If we were thinking more about what Christ is going to do in His return, it might temper what we are going to choose to do today.